UK businesses urged to support Climate Week this March

Printer and copier manufacturer, Kyocera, is encouraging UK businesses to support sustainability by participating in Climate Week, which takes place from the 12th to the 18th of March this year, along with Earth Hour at 8:30pm on 31st of March. Businesses are being asked to pay extra attention to ensuring all non-essential electrical equipment is turned off for this period.

The company says it is challenging all businesses in the UK to reduce waste and become more energy efficient by implementing small changes, such as:

Use your software’s ‘print preview’ feature to make sure the document is absolutely right, so that you reduce wasted paper by only having to print once

Don’t print documents when you can just as easily read them on screen

Set your printers to print double-sided by default

Where possible, print multiple pages on the same sheet of paper

Only print the required pages rather than the whole document

Don’t print more copies than you really need

Use a smaller font size to reduce the number of pages printed

Don’t send a hard copy when a soft copy will do

Use your device’s power and paper saving features

Turn off non-essential hardware over night

Kyocera claims that it’s research has found that the average British office worker uses 6,000 sheets of paper a year and 62 percent of these are unnecessary. Furthermore, 40 percent of office workers have found confidential printouts left lying on printers in the past 12 months and 20 percent of the IT department’s time is spent supporting printers.